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From the Banishment of Archelus to the Departure From Babylon - Flavius Josephus

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hi<strong>the</strong>r<strong>to</strong> were <strong>the</strong> children <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> male line. But Herodias, <strong>the</strong>ir sister, was<br />

married <strong>to</strong> Herod [Philip], <strong>the</strong> son <strong>of</strong> Herod <strong>the</strong> Great, who was born <strong>of</strong><br />

Mariamne, <strong>the</strong> daughter <strong>of</strong> Simon <strong>the</strong> high priest, who had a daughter,<br />

Salome; after whose birth Herodias <strong>to</strong>ok upon her <strong>to</strong> confound <strong>the</strong> laws <strong>of</strong><br />

our country, and divorced herself from her husband while he was alive, and<br />

was married <strong>to</strong> Herod [Antipas], her husband's bro<strong>the</strong>r by <strong>the</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>r's side, he<br />

was tetrarch <strong>of</strong> Galilee; but her daughter Salome was married <strong>to</strong> Philip, <strong>the</strong><br />

son <strong>of</strong> Herod, and tetrarch <strong>of</strong> Trachonitis; and as he died childless,<br />

Aris<strong>to</strong>bulus, <strong>the</strong> son <strong>of</strong> Herod, <strong>the</strong> bro<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> Agrippa, married her; <strong>the</strong>y had<br />

three sons, Herod, Agrippa, and Aris<strong>to</strong>bulus; and this was <strong>the</strong> posterity <strong>of</strong><br />

Phasaelus and Salampsio. But <strong>the</strong> daughter <strong>of</strong> Antipater by Cypros was<br />

Cypros, whom Alexas Selcias, <strong>the</strong> son <strong>of</strong> Alexas, married; <strong>the</strong>y had a<br />

daughter, Cypros; but Herod and Alexander, who, as we <strong>to</strong>ld you, were <strong>the</strong><br />

bro<strong>the</strong>rs <strong>of</strong> Antipater, died childless. As <strong>to</strong> Alexander, <strong>the</strong> son <strong>of</strong> Herod <strong>the</strong><br />

king, who was slain by his fa<strong>the</strong>r, he had two sons, Alexander and Tigranes,<br />

by <strong>the</strong> daughter <strong>of</strong> Archelaus, king <strong>of</strong> Cappadocia. Tigranes, who was king<br />

<strong>of</strong> Armenia, was accused at Rome, and died childless; Alexander had ason <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> same name with his bro<strong>the</strong>r Tigranes, and was sent <strong>to</strong> take possession <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> kingdom <strong>of</strong> Armenia by Nero; he had a son, Alexander, who married<br />

Jotape, (3) <strong>the</strong> daughter <strong>of</strong> Antiochus, <strong>the</strong> king <strong>of</strong> Commagena; Vespasian<br />

made him king <strong>of</strong> an island in Cilicia. But <strong>the</strong>se descendants <strong>of</strong> Alexander,<br />

soon after <strong>the</strong>ir birth, deserted <strong>the</strong> Jewish religion, and went over <strong>to</strong> that <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Greeks. But for <strong>the</strong> rest <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> daughters <strong>of</strong> Herod <strong>the</strong> king, it happened<br />

that <strong>the</strong>y died childless. And as <strong>the</strong>se descendants <strong>of</strong> Herod, whom we have<br />

enumerated, were in being at <strong>the</strong> same time that Agrippa <strong>the</strong> Great <strong>to</strong>ok <strong>the</strong><br />

kingdom, and I have now given an account <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, it now remains that I<br />

relate <strong>the</strong> several hard fortunes which befell Agrippa, and how he got clear <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>m, and was advanced <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> greatest height <strong>of</strong> dignity and power.<br />

Footnotes:<br />

1. This Herod seems <strong>to</strong> have had <strong>the</strong> additional name <strong>of</strong> Philip, as Antipus<br />

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